French America : mobility, identity, and minority experience across the continent
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書誌事項
French America : mobility, identity, and minority experience across the continent
Louisiana State University Press, c1993
- : hard
- : pbk
- 統一タイトル
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Du continent perdu à l'archipel retrouvé
大学図書館所蔵 全3件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Expanded and updated translation of: Du continent perdu à l'archipel retrouvé
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This collection of essays represents the most comprehensive study to date of the concentrated populations of French origin that dot the North American continent from Quebec to Louisiana, from Newfoundland to British Columbia. The authors - geographers, anthropologists, historians, and sociologists - view the populations, which are today French-speaking to varying degrees, as part of a widely scattered and very diverse cultural community united by its historic language and its origins. Their essays, appearing together in the United States for the first time in this revised and updated translation of a volume first published in French, in the wake of the 1980 Quebec referendum on sovereignty-association, provide the only broad overview of the continent's peoples of francophone heritage in all their diversity, contradictions, and aspirations. Although considerable scholarly attention has been paid to some of the largest of the francophone groups - particularly those in Quebec and Louisiana - this collection represents an impressive attempt to include many of the other centers of French language and culture in a single coherent historical and geographical perspective. The essays also consider the variety and similarities at these centers as minority islands within an aggressive and alien anglophonic sea. The volume's contributors offer a sophisticated analysis of the many aspects of the New World French experience, which began in the early seventeenth century and extends to the present day. Most of them address the history of a population, its interaction with the surrounding anglophone culture, and the measure and pattern of assimilation to it. They also record the development of ethnicself-consciousness within the groups they examine and assess the possibility of the cultural islands' survival as something apart in the age of the "global village." In describing the francophone presence and influence across the continent, the authors offer a new interpretation of
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